Let The Watermelon Harvest Begin

I began harvesting watermelon yesterday. So far I estimate about 300 lbs has been picked along with 1 cantaloupe and 4 pumpkins.

One of the Crimson Sweet watermelons has been cut and it tastes sweet. It weighed about 26 lbs. Studying watermelon lemonade recipes and need to find the blender.

Good season this year!

Pumpkins

The pumpkins have started to get ripe after a fungus (white powder splotches) on the leaves appeared and killed the plants. This is way too early for Halloween but I am happy that I got a least 4 pumpkins to mature to basketball size.

The Concord grapes were lost to deer. They seemed to have acquired a taste for ripe grapes and even took the grapes off the plant close to the garage.

Colorful Insects in the Garden

This is a picture of an orange moth(?) sitting on a pumpkin leaf.

Another picture of the same orange insect perched on a pumpkin leaf.

A large greenish-orange beetle resting on a pumpkin leaf.

A small orange-black fly with iridescent wings parked on the leaf of a cantaloupe plant.
All pictures taken in a garden in Hodgenville, Kentucky.